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River Flood Warning 89, NWS Topeka, KS

May 22, 2019Geary County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at May 22, 2019, 12:20 PM CDT for Geary County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2019, 12:20 PM CDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2019, 4:10 PM CDT
In force: 28 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Geary County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Smoky Hill River near Junction City (JUCK1).

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 32 ft
Major stage: 44 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06879000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 22, 6:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 4:10 AM CDT, 8 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 9:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	30 min
May 21, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Nemaha	25 min
May 21, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson	23 min
May 21, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	14 min
May 21, 9:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Ottawa, Pottawatomie and 2 more	3 hr
May 22, 3:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more	5 days
May 22, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	26 min
May 22, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	26 min
May 22, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	36 min
May 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	26 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.